Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People's History of the United States, has died of a…
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The author of the beloved A People's History of the United States was a member of various leftist and labor organizations during the Second Red Scare that followed the World War II. This meant that the FBI had to place surveillance on him and his wife, constantly.

Here's part of an agent's report — addressed to no less than FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover — of a meeting with Zinn in November 1953, after he'd been placed under "discreet surveillance" and confronted on the street regarding his ties to the Communist Party (click to enlarge):

It continues (page 25), but the point is: he was not going to side with the Soviet Union in the event of war. Hooray!